IWONDER how readers would react if I said: 'What about pobbies?'
These are a mixture of bread softened with hot water and drained and then beaten up with warm milk, sugar and a tiny knob of butter.
Babies used to have them in their bottles, with a wide teat-end. Children, and even mother and father had them when there was nothing else.
This was a topic that cropped up in a beautiful little church in Preston Old Road, Cherry Tree, Blackburn on Sunday, August 23, when my great-grandson was being christened.
Never in his life will he have to eat 'pobbies,' yet he will try to achieve higher things.
ADA GIBSON, Grange Street, Clayton-le-Moors
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